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Not sure what you mean. Is he going to run for the presidency after Trump? Yale has some famous graduates, George W Bush, William J Clinton, Hillary D Rodham ...

Believe it or not, he’s not stridently political like I am and doesn’t normally discuss politics with me over the phone. We talk a lot more about the respective states of the Bills (yay!) and Sabres (ugh!). Having said that, I can tell you that my dad remains a long-time two-state solution guy and only very recently began to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza (sometime around April of this year). He was especially close to his Jewish maternal grandfather, which I personally believe has compromised his ability to rationally assess the present situation. I’ve been a one-stater (a.k.a. an advocate for the peaceful dissolution of a Jewish supremacist ethnostate) for the past two years, as you know, and have called out the genocide and the far-right Greater Israel project since they bombed the first Gazan hospital (November 2023?). Now…let’s get to your pop quiz… << pulls out red pen >> << shakes head disapprovingly >> For starters, Leh-nerd, it is not a good strategy to question the writing “efficiency” of your quiz grader. What could be more “efficient” than a simple one-question math quiz to assess the health of a multi-year forum friendship?? Looking over your answer, you clearly did not take the quiz very seriously… Ugh, let’s just get to the answer key… KAY’S OFFICIAL POP QUIZ ANSWER KEY: STEP 1: Note the Cauchy red herring! Your clue that mathematical mischief is afoot! Why the heck would you need to integrate over the complex number plane, Leh-nerd?? This is a first-grade math problem, dude. STEP 2: Note the extraneous sartorial information provided. I would NEVER be caught in public wearing a frumpy Hillary Clinton warmonger pantsuit. A mathematical possibility of precisely 0%. You’re supposed to know that about me, Leh-nerd…the quiz raison d’etre… STEP 3: 2 * 4.5 = 2 * (9/2) = 9 blazer dresses. Put away your Boomery slide rule/abacus/sundial, Leh-nerd, and focus. STEP 4: 9 / 1.8 = 9 / (9/5) = 5 skirt suits. OH MY GOD, Leh-nerd. I’m not asking you to solve a Millennium Prize Problem, bruh. Stop whining… STEP 5: 9 + 5 + 2 = 16 distinct formal business outfits. 16 > 10. Take off your socks, Leh-nerd, if you need help counting higher than 10. STEP 6: 16 / 5 = 3.2 weeks (also acceptable answer: a truncation to 3 weeks). QED,L. Quod. Effin.’ Demonstrandum. Leh-nerd. Hmmm…but your remark about my complexion was surprisingly on point! How astute! Very light colors DO work well with the grossly pale white hue that I maintain for almost the entire year. Also acceptable color alternative: anything red to match the natural facial blush from the summer heat. Wow! You passed, Leh-nerd! Who knew that a lifetime of totally fu*king around in math class chasing floozies would somehow pay off for you in the biggest test of your life?? Our forum friendship is saved! Yay! << steps forward to hug Leh-nerd >> << trips over discarded pile of 4 frumpy Hillary Clinton warmonger pantsuits >> << extended arms create a punching motion that strikes Leh-nerd in the face >> << Leh-nerd too unconscious to consciously note the situational irony >> EDIT: Spelling mistake: “assess,” not “access.”

The spirit of the Constitution is such that the legislative branch limits the unilateral power of the executive branch to start wars. It is emphasized in the War Powers Clause and later reinforced in the 1973 War Powers Resolution. BOTH political sides repeatedly ignoring this Constitutional intention since WW2 has dangerously emboldened American imperialism. The hyperbolic Canada remark was an obvious reductio ad absurdum meant to point out MAGA hypocrisy. Perhaps it would have been more persuasive for me to just substitute Canada with Iran. If senile Joe Biden had suddenly bombed Iran in the same manner as Trump, we all know exactly how MAGA would have responded. No one in my family would follow me to Scandinavia, bruh... I’m going to stay in the United States, I’m going to vote for Zohran today, and I’m going to vote for AOC as President in 2028. Deal with it. According to Papa Adamski: 2 to 3 years with a concerted effort. His assessment is based on the public IAEA reports after JCPOA but before Israel and the U.S. started bombing Iran. According to him, the above-ground activity needed for properly building nuclear weapons would have been far too conspicuous to evade the IAEA to the level that Bibi and Trump claim happened. He emphasized the plutonium processing much more so than the uranium enrichment and the missile deployment technology. Any additional sci/tech questions for Papa Adamski? I’d be happy to ask him! Regarding pantsuits: oh you dare lots, indeed! POP QUIZ TIME FOR LEH-NERD SKIN-ERD: The ratio of Kay’s blazer dresses to chic pantsuits is known to be 4.5, and the ratio of Kay’s blazer dresses to skirt suits is 1.8. Kay owns 2 chic pantsuits. If Kay is suddenly gifted 4 frumpy Hillary Clinton-esque pantsuits, how many weeks can Kay now go wearing a unique formal business outfit? You may or may not need to recall Cauchy’s Integral Theorem for this: the line integral over a closed contour C for w(z)*dz = 0. If you get this question correct, I will press a gold star sticker onto your forehead. If not, you will see gold star stickers circling above your forehead (i.e., I shall punch you in the face, bruh). High-stakes pressure elevates cognitive performance, Leh-nerd…

Whose opinions I would trust, you ask? Select IAEA representatives plus Congressional members of national security and intelligence committees (of all political stripes: left and right, populist and establishment). We should be following Constitution-esque protocols when dealing with imminent nuclear threats. Would you have been comfortable with a senile Joe Biden whimsically and unilaterally bombing, say, Canada over unsubstantiated rumors of imminent nuclear annihilation? Why am I still living here in the United States, you ask?? LOL…um, family and friends, career and culture, the melting pot ethos, a lifetime of cherished memories, the vast natural geographic beauty, representative democracy, the Bill of Rights, the Constitutional separation of powers, etc… What’s wrong with me using the political process to change public policy? Didn’t you try to do the same last November? You are perfectly free to consider yourself an arbiter of what’s “American” and what’s not. Go ahead and declare imperialism and trickle-down economics “American,” while declaring universal health care and nationalized land/natural resources “un-American.” Just remember that at previous points in American history, ideas like slavery and Jim Crow and miscegenation and Gilded Age capitalism and legalized misogyny and the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans were considered sclerotic American values. Yes, your post is a bit opaque to me, but I THINK I’m following: you’re telling me that there are clear standards for defining “imminent” nuclear emergencies like this one, and that you personally know of evidence existing that shows Iran crossed this “imminence” threshold? I’m honestly in no position to tell you that you are incorrect. I’m a civilian biomed device engineer who took one college elective course in intro nuclear science/engineering (random shout-out to the Lamarsh textbook…I still have it in my bookshelf!). All I can tell you, anecdotally, is that my Dad is a solid-state materials physicist and a mild-mannered political centrist. His technical nuclear background is a lot better than mine, and he has DARPA funding under his belt. We talked about this exact topic for a few minutes last night, and he seems to think that the technological likelihood of Iran being able to strike Israel (let alone the U.S.) with nuclear weapons this calendar year is absurd. I feel like we’re going around in tautological circles at this point? Absent new nuclear intelligence information that is made publicly available, let’s agree to disagree. I envisage scenarios in which we’re aligned with what the proper course of action should have been. P.S. My formal business wardrobe ratio of blazer dresses to CHIC pantsuits is officially 4.5. FOUR POINT FIVE. The implication that I might ever wear a frumpy Hillary Clinton warmonger pantsuit was completely out of line. You’re out of your element, Leh-ny, and how dare you.

Now Iran fires missies at Israel. Regardless of what side you’re on in regards to trumps actions - and we’ve all made it clear where we individually stand on that- this is about as stupid and FAFO as you can get. I mean most us knew they would not in any way just take that hit, cry uncle, and do nothing. But watching it play out exactly how we knew it would is still something to see. Let’s just hope Trump doesn’t indeed show the destruction “like they’ve never seen” but I fear his own ego has cornered him into doing something stupid. And now that we’ve supposedly accomplished the mission of denuclearization in Iran (starting to seem like it wasn’t the resounding victory drunken Pete delayed) let those two garbage governments kill each other by way of a trillion paper cuts. But that won’t happen. So here we go again. Another forever war because Iran is doing exactly what we knew they would do. And if the reports that they moved the nuclear material before the strikes are true, we did it for… what? Hillary would have done this. Bidens handlers might have. My feelings on this aren’t partisan. They are just feelings of a guy so sick of being the hall monitor to an area of the world that willfully chooses to never be stable.

Still skeptical of government power, still question everything, still recognize that the camp I’m in— the “Holy crap I hope the evidence they saw that convinced them that they had to act at this level, at this time”—-and hope it turns out to be the correct camp to be in. It’s ultimately a luxury to sit and judge this (or any) military action, and I’m mindful that I could be in the wrong camp. However, the international community, keepers of the peace, etc all seem to point to the conclusion that Iran unchecked was going in one direction and that was a very bad thing. That they chose that path tilts the scale for me. I think I’m pretty consistent in this regard. I appreciate your diplomacy before death approach to this situation, but I see a certain amount of naivety in parsing between a day, a month and a year with the stakes here. The Iranians were in the catbird seat and simply had to agree not to do that which everyone (even a non-intervention interventionist in a Hillary Clinton pantsuit like you) feels they should not be done. You’re apparently willing to wait unit the bomb is made but not yet deployed, I’m hoping the decision was appropriate and they dealt with it before that happened.

'We Came, We Saw, He Died': Democrats' Breathtaking Hypocrisy On War Powers Ed Morrissey After last night's strikes on Iran, Democrat politicians reached screeching levels of hypocrisy over Donald Trump's decision to act rather than wait for an Iranian nuclear weapon deployment. Chuck Schumer demanded action from Congress, as did Hakeem Jeffries. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez led calls for impeachment. Practically every Democrat on Capitol Hill -- with the notable exception of John Fetterman -- rushed to promote their "authoritarian" narrative about Trump. All of this venting reveals very short memories on the port side of Capitol Hill. Fourteen years ago, they couldn't get enough of presidential strikes on a nation in the very same region. Remember Hillary Clinton's chortling over the fall of Moammar Qaddafi and the role she and Barack Obama played in it? "We came, we saw, he died," she raved to Leslie Stahl after a joint US-EU bombing campaign decapitated Qaddafi's regime, and left a failed state in its wake {snip} The wisdom of that Libyan operation is not the issue here. Neither is the wisdom of last night's operation, although the Iranian nuclear-weapons program certainly has far more connection to American security than Libyan rebels did in 2011. The issue at hand is the hypocrisy of those who cheered the 2011 operation, but who now insist that such use of American military forces without Congress' approval is somehow illegal or unprecedented. https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/06/22/we-came-we-saw-he-died-dems-breathtaking-hypocrisy-on-war-powers-n3804046

You didn't know that Trump and every single rich person in NYC knew Epstein? Is this breaking news for you? If there was anything linking Trump to any wrongdoing don't you think Hillary or Biden or Kamala would have released it? No they kept that one to themselves but then tried to drum up fake property valuations to go after him because there was literally nothing else. Nothing new here

You’re STILL using the Hillary 2016 logo??

Frig. I'm usually sharp as a tack and not afraid to say it. My bad there. I cannot imagine voting dem in the future, but completely agree and vote for the party that hurts me less. It's hard for me imagine now, but this was my thought process Trump v Hillary: Everyone knew Trump, and we can move past his one-time darling status with political figures in the dem party. The simple fact was that my wife and I used to watch The Apprentice with my oldest son (he was quite young), understanding the reality TV aspect and fictionalized portions of the show. It was just about enjoying the show, but we did talk a lot about situational awareness, handling difficult situations, work place politics etc. When the run up to choosing nominees was ongoing, I was nauseous thinking about Jeb Bush, or another Clinton in the WH, and not really thinking Trump at all. I called one of my liberal buddies and said..."You know, I might just vote for Biden if he throws his hat in the ring...". I recall where I was when Trump rode the elevator down and announced and thought "Holy Cr8p, what on earth is happening here?". To look back and think I thought THAT was crazy when looking at what's happened since...wow.

The Democrats' Anti-Electoral College Scheme May Be Imploding by Matt Margolis The liberal dream of circumventing the Electoral College might be crumbling faster than anyone expected. Maine, one of the 17 states that joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, is now poised to become the first state to exit the agreement—and it's sending shockwaves through the left-wing coalition that thought they'd found a clever workaround to the Constitution. Just last year, Maine opted to join the compact, which would award all participating states' electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote. But now the state is having serious second thoughts. The Maine House passed a bipartisan bill on Tuesday to withdraw from the compact, and it's headed to the state Senate. Let’s be honest—this reversal is no coincidence. The National Popular Vote compact has always had a partisan flavor, pushed hardest by Democrats who’ve long been frustrated by Electoral College outcomes they don’t like. The 2000 election was clearly a factor, and Trump’s 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton only supercharged the movement. Liberal states such as California and New York signed on, bringing the total to 209 electoral votes—still 61 short of the 270 needed to activate the compact. Heading into 2024, there were growing whispers that Trump might once again win the presidency without the popular vote, and it’s easy to imagine how that would have reignited the left’s push to ditch the Electoral College altogether. But thankfully, we’ll never have to find out—because Trump crushed Kamala Harris in both the Electoral College and the national popular vote. But Maine's experience perfectly illustrates why the compact was always a bad idea. The state joined when Democrats figured Trump could never win the popular vote again. But Trump's decisive popular vote victory in 2024 changed everything. Had the compact been in effect with current members, Trump would have carried a whopping 520 electoral votes, instead of the 312 he actually won. The irony is delicious. Democrats pushed this compact because they thought it would permanently benefit their party’s candidates. https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/05/24/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-national-popular-vote-compact-n4940119

Always enjoy input from Hillary!

Trump’s Poll Numbers Rise, Resistance 2.0 Flops Democrats and the corporate media continue to attack the President and his party, but no one is listening. by David Catron May 25, 2025 or a sense of how desperate the opponents of President Trump have become, consider the rallying cry issued by Hillary Clinton to her fellow travelers last Friday: “I want you to talk to two people — friends, neighbors, cookout attendees — about why Trump’s proposed budget would be a disaster for American kids.” Now, imagine yourself sitting down to enjoy a hotdog and a beer in the warm spring weather only to be accosted by your progressive brother-in-law who insists on boring the bejabbers out of you with a rote recitation of talking points thoughtfully provided by HRC. It’s difficult to imagine a better strategy for chasing more “normies” away from the Democratic Party, which is already hemorrhaging voters by the millions. That Clinton actually thinks sending pushy progressives out to harass their friends and neighbors is a useful tactic for killing the “Big Beautiful Bill Act” is indicative of how clueless she and the rest of the Democrats are about how dramatically the political landscape has changed during the last decade. {snip} And that trend will very likely continue as long as the Democrats keep picking the wrong side of 80-20 issues. As long as they support crazy stuff such as biological males competing in women’s sports, their support among working class voters of all races will shrink. That means they will continue to lose. Intelligent Democrats, an ever shrinking minority, understand that working class voters outnumber “highly educated” voters 2 to 1. The fabled diploma divide has been wildly exaggerated by the corporate media and many degrees handed out by “good schools” are participation trophies. The people who actually produce things know the Democrats have abandoned them. And the resistance? Working class voters know it is an exercise in pseudo-intellectual onanism, though most would use different words to describe it, especially when applied to that loudmouthed brother-in-law. https://spectator.org/trumps-poll-numbers-rise-resistance-2-0-flops/

Good thing you're paying attention. I (and others) have never made that strawman argument and instead have repeatedly said that what happened that day was an embarrassment and those who committed actual crimes deserved to be punished. The discussion was who was at fault for not providing adequate security, which we both believe could have prevented it. You think it was a conspiracy by Trump so that people would break into the Capitol even though he never once said for them to do it. I think it was at best a foolish concern over optics by Pelosi and Bowser and at worst that they wanted something to happen, but outside the Capitol. Hence the reason Pelosi took the blame for it in her daughter's video. And I will continue to say that "he made me do it/he lit the fuse" isn't a valid excuse for anyone to use or to blame a specific person. They were adults and their actions were their own. Finally, contact doesn't equal collusion. And there was zero evidence of any coordinated effort. You guys just couldn't accept that Hillary lost, to the likes of Trump no less, and accepted any excuse.

Hillary Clinton Calls on Liberals to Ruin Memorial Day Gatherings by Bashing Trump to “Friends, Neighbors, Cookout Attendees” by Kristinn Taylor “Boy, this burger is great, Roy! What’s your secret?” “Tom, don’t you know Hillary Clinton says Trump’s new budget is going to increase food insecurity?” “*&%$ it Roy! I just wanted to enjoy Memorial Day with friends. Shove your burger! C’mon Betty, we’re leaving!” “Hey, you! Trump blah blah blah! Put that on your burger, you deplorable, you!” Rather than honoring the military men and women who gave their lives defending their fellow Americans’ right to live in freedom, two-time failed Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is calling on her supporters to bash President Donald Trump and his One Big Beautiful Bill that passed the House this week Or, you could spend the Memorial Day weekend to honor our fallen heroes in the manner they deserve and not make the cookouts political. I choose that approach. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/hillary-clinton-calls-liberals-ruin-memorial-day-gatherings/ P.S. Hillary did not allow any responses to her post

The fake news craze went mainstream with Hillary's Russia collusion hoax. The democrats are still getting residual hype from the reruns without ever being able to confirm and prove anything. Just by following the practice of repeating a lie over and over until people believe it. So how stupid are liberals?

Me too. It’s stunning. Please keep in mind that in addition to Biden, the democrats have given us Hillary and Harris as their other nominees in the Trump era. That’s embarrassing all the way around.

Hillary exonerated!

Yep. Even Hillary agrees.

Foreign countries gave Bill Clinton mega millions for his Presidential library. They surely didn’t do it for favors received or that it get them favor down the road with say…..Hillary? 🤷‍♂️

Because Hillary was promised her shot if she stepped aside for Obama in 2008. But who (masters) made that decision is a great question.

Question no "journalist" will ask Joe Biden: "Joe, who stopped you from running for president in 2016? You were the sitting VP. Why didn't you run, and, instead, gave the field to Obama's Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton? Who are your true masters?" .

I understand the point. I am even willing to concede that there is value in nudging the world economy away from overdependence on China. But the strategy could work without the chaos. Again, take a look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It was a really good agreement that would have increased U.S. influence in the non-China far east, but it was shot down by people (both sides, including Trump and Hillary) for narrow/U.S. politics reasons. Could I (and the markets) accept something like an escalating tariff rate where tariffs go up for each quarter in which no progress is made in negotiations? Yeah, I suppose, even though I'm a free trade advocate by political and economic philosophy. But again: chaos. And that's what the WSJ logistics expert interviewed in the article focuses on. A lot of small businesses will be extremely stressed and many will go bankrupt if it continues.

Roundy, please state how much Obama, Bill, Hillary and Chuck hate brown people.

Meanwhile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . in the real world. Congress Joins RFK’s Crusade Against Big Pharma by Robert McGreevy A bipartisan group of congressional lawmakers introduced a bill Monday to eliminate a tax deduction pharmaceutical companies receive for direct to consumer (DTC) advertising. The No Handouts for Drug Advertisements Act would remove a tax benefit that currently allows the pharmaceutical industry to write off advertising expenses related to advertising on television, radio, social media and other platforms, according to Republican North Carolina Rep. Greg Murphy’s press release. A group of four bipartisan lawmakers introduced the bill: Murphy, Republican Alaska Rep. Nick Begich, Democratic Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig and Democratic Michigan Rep. Hillary Scholten. https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/30/rfk-crusade-big-pharma-direct-consumer-advertising-congress-greg-murphy/ ,